DEMAND PLANNING
- Responsible for analyzing the historical sales data, trends, base growth, distribution, market share and create/analyze a statistical forecast and determine the Operations Demand Plan in order to challenge/align with the Sales Demand Plan.
- Collaborate with Sales to understand the past performance of sales, drive root cause analyzes to understand error in prior periods and highlight inconsistencies the latest. Challenge the latest sales demand plan, to understand underlying assumptions and compare with the Operations Demand Plan.
- Own S&OP meetings to gain consensus on one single forecast and update/fill out/adjust the Demand Plan in the planning tools in accordance with the consensus.
- Responsible for aligning/composing the Placement Forecast for Point-of-Sales items, identifying risks and opportunities to the operating plan and financial framework.
- Manage the continuous improvement and reporting of forecast accuracy.
- Provide insights to the Business to conduct fact-based portfolio management and to implement a yearly SKU portfolio review cycle.
S&OP PLANNING / EXECUTION
- Based upon the consensus Demand Plan, generate the monthly local Supply Plan as input for the Global S&OP Process and manage inventory levels to ensure no out of stocks, inventory levels according to business plans and ensure healthy product age according to the quality guidelines.
- Lead solutions findings and execution of demand and supply imbalances.
- Manage product transitions of new and phasing out SKUs.
- Provide to the Logistics Manager with a rolling forecast for 3PLs on inbound, storage and outbound volumes